
Oh, God!(1977)
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.


Robert Beatty
Bob Jefferson

Michael Medwin
Timothy Blake

Virginia McKenna
Shelagh

Mervyn Johns
Tom Mitchum

Arthur Macrae
Alan Digby

Gillian Lind
Jane Bond

Ursula Howells
Peggy

Louise Hampton
Miss Turner
John Charlesworth
Denis

Joseph Tomelty
Terry Roche
The Oracle is a comedy, fantasy film released in 1953. Directed by C.M. Pennington-Richards, it stars Robert Beatty, Michael Medwin, Virginia McKenna. An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.
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